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JTsBiggestFan · 2016-12-28T04:31:36-08:00

Gotta start small. I think 2018 we'll get a game. We've been on SNF during the dark Nolan/Sing years, no?

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:02 AM

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Jamespowers
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Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Cowboys vs Niners next season on SNF

Only If the 49ers get Tony Romo

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:05 AM

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Dr_Bill_Walsh
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Originally posted by Jamespowers:
Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Cowboys vs Niners next season on SNF

Only If the 49ers get Tony Romo

FOX has 1st dibs on NFC vs NFC matchups. They'll make the game their "America's Game of the Week"........again

FYI: Niners vs Cowboys hasn't been on prime time since Nov. 11, 1990....NFC network will prob never relinquish that classic matchup to SNF

[ Edited by Dr_Bill_Walsh on Dec 28, 2016 at 10:11 AM ]

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by ltrain:
NFL starts flexing at week 5 I think, so it would have to be weeks 1-4 and that probably shouldn't happen for a couple more years at least.

sounds about right.

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:17 AM

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I remember the days of having zero SNF games, and never having FOX's "A team" for our games in the mid-late 2000s.

I'd bet we don't get any game scheduled for SNF in 2017. I'm surprised they put the Niners/Giants game last October on SNF tbh.

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:23 AM

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Dr_Bill_Walsh
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Originally posted by LayTheWoodall:
I remember the days of having zero SNF games, and never having FOX's "A team" for our games in the mid-late 2000s.

I'd bet we don't get any game scheduled for SNF in 2017. I'm surprised they put the Niners/Giants game last October on SNF tbh.

NFL schedulers prob hadn't anticipated the JH-Niners divorce and mass exodus from SF

NY vs SF is still a ratings draw early in a season (if the rest of the league matchups suck) due to the large markets and drawing viewers from both coasts

Collinsworth is a sadistic SOB and enjoyed the schadenfreude of broadcasting the Niners fall

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:52 AM

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Jamespowers
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Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:

Originally posted by Jamespowers:

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Cowboys vs Niners next season on SNF

Only If the 49ers get Tony Romo

FOX has 1st dibs on NFC vs NFC matchups. They'll make the game their "America's Game of the Week"........again

FYI: Niners vs Cowboys hasn't been on prime time since Nov. 11, 1990....NFC network will prob never relinquish that classic matchup to SNF

ah. Did not know this. Always Thought NBC had 1st dibs on it, makes sense though.

Dec 28, 2016 at 10:56 AM

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Matchuu84
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Nfl is moving on to the giants cowboys rivalry now, tossing us like last weeks left overs

Dec 28, 2016 at 11:08 AM

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Originally posted by Matchuu84:
Nfl is moving on to the giants cowboys rivalry now, tossing us like last weeks left overs

I don't blame them.

Dec 28, 2016 at 12:18 PM

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Jamespowers
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Originally posted by CenCal9er:

Originally posted by Matchuu84:
Nfl is moving on to the giants cowboys rivalry now, tossing us like last weeks left overs

I don't blame them.

Interesting to see if Dallas puts together 2 straight good season. something they have not done in awhile.

Dec 28, 2016 at 12:25 PM

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Fanaticofnfl
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Probably 2018-2019. 2017 only if a late-season matchup gets flexed.

Dec 28, 2016 at 12:56 PM

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Dr_Bill_Walsh
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Originally posted by Jamespowers:
Originally posted by CenCal9er:
Originally posted by Matchuu84:
Nfl is moving on to the giants cowboys rivalry now, tossing us like last weeks left overs

I don't blame them.

Interesting to see if Dallas puts together 2 straight good season. something they have not done in awhile.

DAL will always have at least 3 prime time games, even if they go 0-16

'Murrucuhh's Team

Dec 28, 2016 at 12:57 PM

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Young2Rice
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Its better it takes awhile. This franchise is an embarrassment.

Dec 28, 2016 at 1:12 PM

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CenCal9er
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Originally posted by Matchuu84:
Nfl is moving on to the giants cowboys rivalry now, tossing us like last weeks left overs

I don't blame them.

Dec 28, 2016 at 4:29 PM

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Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:
Niners used to get an inordinate number of primetime games (even when they sucked) due to being in a shared market with the Raiders...if both teams were hosting a game the same weekend, the NFL and their daytime networks (FOX & CBS) would work around splitting the viewing market by having one team be the afternoon 1pm start and the other scheduled to a prime time game (on ABC MNF or ESPN/TNT SNF). There also wasn't flex scheduling back in the day, so the Niners kept their prime time games late in the season.

The network shuffle of the mid-2000's and reformatting of how prime time games were scheduled coincided with the Niners sucking, which is why their prime time games dried up during that time.

As I said, later on the league added (then expanded) TNF, making that an option for "B-rated" matchups (and avoiding splitting viewership in shared markets like NY, the Bay & now SoCal), and saving SNF as the new marquee prime time slot.

So, for the foreseeable future the Niners have only to hope for:

- preseason prime time game (likely on the road) to get west coast ratings

- the later broadcast, second ESPN MNF season opener (again to get west coast ratings)

- a TNF game or two

Jed will want this, again, and agree to another East Coast game the following week, then a road division game the following week. Just like this year, and last year.

Dec 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM

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I think we get to see the 49ers vs Bengals on Sunday Night next year..